Дмитрий Быков (видео) // «YouTube. Rodion Beletskiy», 20 июня 2021 года
The London Book Fair @LondonBookFair («Twitter», 25.06.2021):
The Hard Times of Our Mutual Friend Fyodor — this lecture by Dmitry Bykov explores how Dostoevsky was the Russian Dickens and why it matters.
The London Book Fair («Facebook», 25.06.2021):
Dostoevsky and Dickens have become synonymous to Russia and Great Britain. On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky, this lecture by Dmitry Bykov delves inside the most Russian and the most British of writers and shows how true genius can never belong to just one nation.
The Tale of Two Writers: Dostoevsky as The Russian Dickens.
The London Book Fair («Instagram», 25.06.2021):
The Tale of Two Writers — Dostoevsky as The Russian Dickens
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Happy 200th Birthday!
Dmitry Bykov: A Special Presentation for The Online Book Fair
European fiction is full of incredible coincidences that are a widely-accepted fact — most major writers seem to have a doppelganger. Not literal ones of course, but a distinct pattern has been noticed in literature — many a Russian genius repeated the life and style and Western writers, building on their existing example and often surpassing it in both grandeur and national, if not universal, significance. So, Tolstoy had Hugo and Dumas, Lermontov was haunted by Goethe, Pushkin may have wanted to be your local St. Petersburg Byron. And Dostoevsky? Who could come close to the almost documentary in its realism prose of the master who penned “Crime and Punishment”? Dickens, of course! Their coming-of-age biographies, their tastes, private lives, even appearance and circumstances surrounding their death — it was as if in some heavenly delivery ward, Fyodor and Charles were separated at birth.
For most scholars and critics Dostoevsky is “the most Russian” of Russian writers, the heart and soul of the nation and the essence of Russian spirit. But what if that’s not all he was? Could it be that The Haunted Man of St. Petersburg had a British soul? This lecture by Dmitry Bykov delves inside the most Russian of writers and shows how sometimes, regardless of the hundreds of miles in between, a very Russian Crime and no less Russian Punishment can pull at one’s soul’s strings until eventually all we are left with is the peace and comfort that can only be brought on by the familiar European romanticism of a very British Christmas Carol.
The Hard Times of Our Mutual Friend Fyodor — this lecture by Dmitry Bykov explores how Dostoevsky was the Russian Dickens and why it matters.
The London Book Fair («Facebook», 25.06.2021):
Dostoevsky and Dickens have become synonymous to Russia and Great Britain. On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky, this lecture by Dmitry Bykov delves inside the most Russian and the most British of writers and shows how true genius can never belong to just one nation.
The Tale of Two Writers: Dostoevsky as The Russian Dickens.
The London Book Fair («Instagram», 25.06.2021):
The Tale of Two Writers — Dostoevsky as The Russian Dickens
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Happy 200th Birthday!
Dmitry Bykov: A Special Presentation for The Online Book Fair
European fiction is full of incredible coincidences that are a widely-accepted fact — most major writers seem to have a doppelganger. Not literal ones of course, but a distinct pattern has been noticed in literature — many a Russian genius repeated the life and style and Western writers, building on their existing example and often surpassing it in both grandeur and national, if not universal, significance. So, Tolstoy had Hugo and Dumas, Lermontov was haunted by Goethe, Pushkin may have wanted to be your local St. Petersburg Byron. And Dostoevsky? Who could come close to the almost documentary in its realism prose of the master who penned “Crime and Punishment”? Dickens, of course! Their coming-of-age biographies, their tastes, private lives, even appearance and circumstances surrounding their death — it was as if in some heavenly delivery ward, Fyodor and Charles were separated at birth.
For most scholars and critics Dostoevsky is “the most Russian” of Russian writers, the heart and soul of the nation and the essence of Russian spirit. But what if that’s not all he was? Could it be that The Haunted Man of St. Petersburg had a British soul? This lecture by Dmitry Bykov delves inside the most Russian of writers and shows how sometimes, regardless of the hundreds of miles in between, a very Russian Crime and no less Russian Punishment can pull at one’s soul’s strings until eventually all we are left with is the peace and comfort that can only be brought on by the familiar European romanticism of a very British Christmas Carol.
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21 June — 1 July, 2021
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Happy 200th Birthday!
Dmitry Bykov: A special presentation for London Book Fair
Dostoyevsky as the Russian Dickens
Dmitry Bykov
Fiction writer, journalist, literary critic, TV/radio personality.
Born in Moscow, Russia. Currently resides in Moscow.
Graduated with honours from Moscow State University, with a degree in journalism.
Career years — 1982 to present day.
Bykov has written over 65 books, including poetry collections, fictional prose, critical essays and many other genres. Some of his poetry and fiction has been published in English and German.
A respected biographer, he has written the lives of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maksim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky. The biographies have been translated into French, Italian, Norwegian and Chinese.
In 2013 Bykov joined forces with actor Mikhail Efremov to create Citizen Poet — a political satire project, in which Efremov read Bykov’s poems. Videos of the readings went viral, with the project enjoying immense popularity among the liberally-minded Russians.
// readrussiaonline.ru
Fiction writer, journalist, literary critic, TV/radio personality.
Born in Moscow, Russia. Currently resides in Moscow.
Graduated with honours from Moscow State University, with a degree in journalism.
Career years — 1982 to present day.
Bykov has written over 65 books, including poetry collections, fictional prose, critical essays and many other genres. Some of his poetry and fiction has been published in English and German.
A respected biographer, he has written the lives of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maksim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky. The biographies have been translated into French, Italian, Norwegian and Chinese.
In 2013 Bykov joined forces with actor Mikhail Efremov to create Citizen Poet — a political satire project, in which Efremov read Bykov’s poems. Videos of the readings went viral, with the project enjoying immense popularity among the liberally-minded Russians.
// readrussiaonline.ru